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The USAMTU Advanced Pistol Marksmanship Manual says to keep the thumb higher than the trigger finger.

Those of us who shoot Bullseye and are left-handed have a bit of a problem with this -- a high thumb position places the thumb directly in front of the ejection port on the m1911.

I have 2 of the GSG magazines. They aren't wide enough, and as a result, the magazine release doesn't hold them securely enough. They tend to drop out of the pistol whenever I fire a shot.

Not for nothing, but why can't you just run a chamber reamer in to cure a peened down chamber? A new barrel seems a bit excessive... Steve. I tried a chamber reamer before I got the ironing swage. Not only is the reamer more expensive, but it didn't remove any material. I.e., it didn't work. And 22...

According to Larry Carter, all rimfire chambers are subject to 'peening', where the back end of the chamber eventually becomes smaller than the front end, making it difficult or impossible for the gun to eject a spent shell after it has expanded to match the size of the chamber. He said that this ha...

@alb I'd tried what you've recommended this afternoon, and it did help to center my groups, and provides good sight alignment. Though my RF groups went to hell. So with your approach, is there any involvement of the thumb or other fingers? - it's only the tip of the middle finger that's pressing on...

Actually, your pistol is recoiling up and clockwise. It recoils up because you are gripping it below the bore. It twists clockwise because 1911's generally have a left-hand twist barrel, so the bullet rotates counter-clockwise, causing the gun to twist clockwise (Newton's 3rd law of motion). For a l...

I started shooting my .45 a lot more this summer and discovered that my .22 scores were plummeting (I shoot .22 with a Pardini). The problem appears to arise from operation of the trigger. Every book and article that I've ever read on trigger control says that you should pull the trigger 'straight b...

The M1911 grip angle seems to point more naturally, but the grip angle in the Pardini seems to promote a more stable hold. Interestingly, I started shooting my .45 a lot more this summer and discovered that my .22 scores were plummeting (I shoot .22 with a Pardini). The problem appears to arise from...

A decrease from 800 to 720 fps from switching primers is morte than I would have imagined. The most I have expereinced is almost 50 fps when switching between FLP and WLP - the difference appears to be powder dependent. I am also seeing a large extreme spread in velocities. Solo 1250 is a slower bu...

I recently switched from Magtech primers to Federal Gold Medal Match primers (I have a lot of them that I got last year during the shortage). I was shooting 185 grain LSWC heads with 5.0 grains of Solo 1250 with the Magtech primers. When I switched to Federal, my muzzle velocity went from 825 fps do...

You seek prior restraint on behavior just because it might injure someone. If your friend, or anyone else, shoots through an attacker and injures or kill a bystander, there are plenty of laws to punish that injurious conduct. Your prior restraint is unnecessary. Jose, Perhaps you’d like to do away ...

Scott, as a left handed shooter I can relate. I often also shoot high right when I am under pressure in rapid fire. If this is not happening in timed fire then what I have done is realize that I am probably jerking the trigger in my haste and compensating for it by putting my dot low left as what I...

Just a note, I totally disagree with Mr Baer. The trigger should be shootable the first time out of the box. Claiming it will work itself in to perfection is just an excuse for not correcting the bad trigger job. Shame on him!!! Good Shooting Bill Horton Bill, I agree that the trigger should be sho...

Is there no mechanism to change the constitution to accommodate changes and developments in the world, or is it cast in stone and to be as immutable as, say, the Old Testament? Yes, there is. It’s extremely difficult, as it should be. We in the U.S. live in a representative republic, governed by wr...

Are people like you for real? Let me guess......you thought the crime control act of 94 was a good idea. Right? People who think like you and Ricardo are worse than anti-gunners. Of course I’m for real. But, perhaps you misunderstand where I’m coming from. I’m firmly opposed to gun control. The boo...

If I have one gun I won't commit a crime, but if I have two, three or more it will somehow drive me into a crime spree? Richard, Of course, you’re correct. However, having multiple guns means that you don’t have to reload as often, which gives you a significant tactical advantage should you go on a...

ALB, I've spent some time carefully considering your premise. For the life of me, I can't see what Police Powers have to do with the US Second Amendment. National Guard is rightly only used in times of State or National Emergencies. While the Militia of the 18th century was the Founding Fathers pre...

The Second Amendment is primarily about keeping the Government honest, and really has very little to do with common criminals … . The minority in the Heller and McDonald decisions would agree with you, and deny you your 2nd amendment right to have an effective weapon with which to exercise your rig...

… it would be possible to design a well-crafted set of rules for who is and who isn't allowed to own firearms and what kind . Good luck with that. One of the rationales (probably the principle rationale) for the 14th amendment was that after the Civil War the southern states passed laws banning bla...

... what surprises me is that there seems so much, almost hysterical, enthusiasm for keeping guns for self defence in USA. What is the reality? Is USA really such a dangerous place to be, or is the population unrealistically scared of imagined threats? I can't believe that, in the current political...